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Spreading dogbane
Apocynum androsaemifolium L. var. incanum DC.
Plant Description:
- Many-branched, open-forest or sandy soils plant growing up to 150 cm tall
- Oval, opposite leaves with a hairy underside
- Drooping, bell-shaped, pink-white flowers form at the ends of branches and at the axils of the leaves
- Inside the flower is a scale with teeth - when the scale is touched by an insect, the teeth spring inwards to trap the insect
- Gives off a pleasent smell
- Milky juice in the stem that can irritate sensitive skin
- Once thought to be a hair-growth stimulant
- Found at Stops 1, 2, 7, and 11
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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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